Muscular System

Extensibility allows muscles to...

• consume oxygen
• contract
• react to impulse
• stretch

Which is not a property of muscles?

• excitability

• stability

• extensibility

• elasticity

What type of muscle makes up the walls of the heart?

• cardiac muscle
• coronary muscle
• striated muscle
• voluntary muscle

Where would find voluntary muscle?

• attached to the femur
• in the bladder
• inside the heart
• lining the stomach

What type of muscle lines the esophagus?

• cardiac
• skeletal
• smooth
• voluntary

What muscle movement occurs when you move your hand from an open palm to a fist?

• adduction
• flexion
• extension
• abduction

When a muscle attaches to a bone, the end that does not move is the...

• insertion
• origin
• root
• tendon

Disabling muscle disorder that affects children...

• fibromyalgia
• muscular dystrophy
• strain
• myasthenia gravis

What muscle is located above the waist?

• deltoid
• tibialis anterior
• gluteus maximus
• gastrocnemius

Where is the latissiumus dorsi located?

• back
• leg
• neck
• shoulder